Support #770
Updated by Daniel Curtis about 8 years ago
This is a guide on how I manually setup FreeBSD with a ZFS root on a GPT formatted hard drive using the very useful pc-sysinstall utility. This guide is intended to install FreeBSD using the installation DVD and will work offline. * When the FreeBSD Installer Welcome message appears, choose *Shell*. * Get a list of available drives: <pre> camcontrol devlist </pre> * Create a pcinstall.local.cfg file: <pre> vi /tmp/pcinstall.local.cfg </pre> #* And add the following: <pre> #$FreeBSD$ # Automatic fresh install installInteractive=no installMode=fresh installType=FreeBSD # Local Installation Media installMedium=local localPath=/usr/freebsd-dist packageType=dist packageType=tar distFiles=base kernel lib32 pkgExt=.txz netSaveDev=AUTO-DHCP # Disk Setup for ada0 disk0=ada0 partition=ALL bootManager=none commitDiskPart # Partition Setup for ada0(ALL) disk0-part=ZFS 0 /,/usr,/var commitDiskLabel # Optional Components #installComponents= # Root Password rootPass=SuperSecretRootPassword # Users userName=bob userComment=Bob Guy userPass=SuperSecretPassword userShell=/bin/csh userHome=/home/bob userGroups=wheel,operator commitUser </pre> * Run the pc-sysinstall utility with the created config file: <pre> pc-sysinstall -c /tmp/pcinstall.local.cfg </pre> h2. Resources * http://web.pcbsd.org/doc-archive/10.1.2/html/advanced.html * https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pc-sysinstall&sektion=8&n=1 * https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/tree/master/usr.sbin/pc-sysinstall/examples